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Man has been gifted a great prize Although they never assumed it would be their demise Centuries ago the technology produced Relied upon humans for a little boost However now it seems every thought by a man Requires for technology to come up with the plan It seems man's intelligence has began to backtrack Similar to being subdued in a flashback All the knowledge they've acquired Is something that cannot not be admired Their lives are corrupted by the media They get information from the Internet- not by encyclopedia There is still a chance for them to turn it all around And use these faults to help with the rebound However if they continue on as shown Their advancements will soon be marked with a headstone.
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 1:52 AM UTC
An Essay On Man: Man Vs. Technology
Revolution: Part one. The first French King sentenced to death, Must have a new execution invented; So that this day shall be forever remembered. The execution of your King, this invention of evil; This is how he will finally meet his end and go to the Devil. The man behind the mask, the executioner; Will lead us to change to a new world order. A declaration of civil war, to stop the oppression, Has lead France to say, we must fight to stop the aggression. We must be revolting and begin the revolution; To put an end to the executions. The fall of the guillotine, for a life time spent, Writing the encyclopedia, which lead to his death. There is no place for God, in an encyclopedia of Man; This writing is illegal, you are blasphemous! God **** So the time has come, to take your last breath. Remember when you see the guillotine... don't lose your head. Until it's chopped off and ends up in the basket; Another case of basket case madness. No fiction necessary, for us to live here on Earth; But this execution, you surely don't deserve. So the poets leave France, before the revolution; All of them heading, back to England. These prison bars to entrap the young. Taken prisoner for writing a book. Follow their rules; free thinking is wrong. The encyclopedia is evidence enough. Man is born free and grows to imprison himself; Then he must follow the orders, of somebody else. Frances revolutionaries, said let it be, let it be; But the nation is ruled, by the monarchy. Imprisoned for what they think, the poets and the artists; But there are no walls, in the prison inside their heads. Begin the revolution and make us all classless, Because they’re chained by society, For the thoughts that they think. A fight for equality, a modern day philosophy. Man is born to think for himself; a revolution is on the way. Liberty! Liberation for one free state; A jaded nation must make a change. Revolution began, after the fall of the blade; Now the guillotine of power will stop us being slaves. Preaching revolution, we must free ourselves of these manacles. Preaching liberation for the masses And freedom for the individual. This new guillotine, the machine of death, Makes the severed head fall into the basket, As they take your last breath; But they can't take your words, from the books you have written. So fight the power! Revolution! Revolution! We must have a revolution, that is televised. Che Guevara, Malcolm X, me, myself and I. All of us willing to join the fight; All of knowing our view is right. (C)2013 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 7:20 AM UTC
Revolution : Part one
Revolution: Part one. The first French King sentenced to death, Must have a new execution invented; So that this day shall be forever remembered. The execution of your King, this invention of evil; This is how he will finally meet his end and go to the Devil. The man behind the mask, the executioner; Will lead us to change to a new world order. A declaration of civil war, to stop the oppression, Has lead France to say, we must fight to stop the aggression. We must be revolting and begin the revolution; To put an end to the executions. The fall of the guillotine, for a life time spent, Writing the encyclopedia, which lead to his death. There is no place for God, in an encyclopedia of Man; This writing is illegal, you are blasphemous! God **** So the time has come, to take your last breath. Remember when you see the guillotine... don't lose your head. Until it's chopped off and ends up in the basket; Another case of basket case madness. No fiction necessary, for us to live here on Earth; But this execution, you surely don't deserve. So the poets leave France, before the revolution; All of them heading, back to England. These prison bars to entrap the young. Taken prisoner for writing a book. Follow their rules; free thinking is wrong. The encyclopedia is evidence enough. Man is born free and grows to imprison himself; Then he must follow the orders, of somebody else. Frances revolutionaries, said let it be, let it be; But the nation is ruled, by the monarchy. Imprisoned for what they think, the poets and the artists; But there are no walls, in the prison inside their heads. Begin the revolution and make us all classless, Because they’re chained by society, For the thoughts that they think. A fight for equality, a modern day philosophy. Man is born to think for himself; a revolution is on the way. Liberty! Liberation for one free state; A jaded nation must make a change. Revolution began, after the fall of the blade; Now the guillotine of power will stop us being slaves. Preaching revolution, we must free ourselves of these manacles. Preaching liberation for the masses And freedom for the individual. This new guillotine, the machine of death, Makes the severed head fall into the basket, As they take your last breath; But they can't take your words, from the books you have written. So fight the power! Revolution! Revolution! We must have a revolution, that is televised. Che Guevara, Malcolm X, me, myself and I. All of us willing to join the fight; All of knowing our view is right. (C)2013 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
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camel        C-A-M-E-L        ...             ... (?)             ...             Why?        I don't know, cause they're cool ! . ?                  his favorite animal is a camel   and he doesn't know why   but i do        i think, as a kid, he read about it in an encyclopedia And decided, "that's how I want to live my life"      the humps on camel's backs that can store water   and they can go days, weeks, months, I even heard years   without replenishing   crossing dry, barren deserts   carrying cargo, people        i didn't know camels wore graphic t-shirts,   crocs and cargo shorts   but he is a camel   tall and lanky     takes in tons and never gains a pound   (i hate camels)        a camel exists in the Arabian world   is in love with a Middle-Eastern girl   and they even have a miracle of that descent        He IS A Camel!   but the humps on his back   are hope and inspiration     and with just a little in the tank   he will cross a world of deserts     and bring you back a treasure chest full of dreams        but he enjoys simplicity ...   Sometimes, then sometimes not at all   he takes things way overboard     and carries far to much cargo   but he crosses the desert anyway        i didn't know camels were such good teachers        didn't know they made such good friends
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Jul 2, 2012
Jul 2, 2012 at 4:30 PM UTC
the Camel
The Things I Wish I Could Be I wish I could be one of all instruments; the singer whose voice transforms his audience into a choir; the writer who drops his reader's guard making a beautiful decimation of every self-made fantasy; the actor ripe with nominations whose prestigious Oscar breaks him open before the world; the photographer who captures moments worth infinite words while instilling that perfect piercing silence; the painter of elegant simplicity or ponderous complexity in every brush and stroke; the icon strangers seek for reason looking upon for inspiration; the husband who gives and comforts appreciating the angel he's been bestowed; the father wise and guiding with enough laughs and smiles to last their whole lives; the chef and the baker serving only the best scrumptious entrees and desserts; the encyclopedia of experience answering questions obscured from the web; yet beyond all things I wish to greet death with a smile knowing my life, however lived was worth those years.
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 11:26 PM UTC
The Things I Wish I Could Be
I am a bird chair Bird chairs may have not caught on yet but I promise you they soon shall I work well with a bird lamp Wave at Window and Book Me a How-To-Encyclopedia of bird chairs and lamps Chapter Four is all bird flags You know how hot suburban jungle gets Stringing lights around moon is not so difficult When wind is at your back much easier in a bird chair And with a bird lamp Shoe painting is mentioned in the glossary just in reference to sadness your bird chair might be experiencing If you wish to re-floor carpet bag bird chairs are perfect accompaniments Big things are happening in bird chairs Look out for bird jet next
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Mar 22, 2016
Mar 22, 2016 at 11:00 AM UTC
Bird Chair
I left it back in high school on the bench near the gate behind it were some red flowers and I always thought they were nice standing out from the green surrounding them I left it back in the library Near the encyclopedia labeled Firsts , I was on my way to you when I dropped it Back in middle school on the 5th field during P.E. he was beating me senseless when it came off I was bleeding everywhere he told me to pick it up that day I decided to walk home
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Apr 27, 2014
Apr 27, 2014 at 5:25 PM UTC
You Dropped Your Mask
Take my name, take my card, soon you will own me, it is not that hard. I am like an open book, just type my name, I'll be caught on your hook. My information is everywhere you can find my favorite food, or most hated place to think, either way I am ******* for you will own me before I blink. With so much social media, filling the internet like an encyclopedia, about our lives and what they mean, there is no privacy that can be seen. So let us live our lives like animals, living in cages placed upon these screens, our lives are owned by these machines.
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 2:07 PM UTC
Privacy
Pressed flowers Forgotten in the pages Of the that book Oh what was it called But anyway, That book is sitting In my father's bookshelf Somewhere between A history of the civil war And an encyclopedia from 1949 It is lost in the depths Of my mother's bookshelf There the book with the pressed flowers Covered in dust and memories Waits for me to recapture the lost moments Collecting and absorbing the words And ideas trapped within the binding Lost flowers, pressed in time Lost in the pages of my childhood Bookmarked, forever.
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Dec 10, 2013
Dec 10, 2013 at 11:28 AM UTC
Bookmark
I’ve been going to this boxing gym and training every week. And everyone there is fighting something You can see in their Eyes They’re punching their dad Or they’re punching Whoever their wife is sleeping with Or they're punching Their kids who ignore them Or they’re punching Themselves. Their boss Their job Their alcohol problem Their poverty And every week we get to fight our problems together And we’re exploding inside. What? You can’t fight your problems? It’s not only that I can. I will. And do. Because crying alone isn’t good enough Because all that fire you build up inside you has to go somewhere Or it’ll burn you alive. So you throw it into the heavy bag Or into the guy you’re sparring Or into the ground you run on. We’re all fighting something So what about you? What are you fighting that’s so god **** important? No, don’t tell me. Tell that heavy bag. He listens. He listens when your wife doesn’t give a **** He listens when it doesn’t even matter Tell these padded mitts. That one-two punch says more than a twenty-four volume encyclopedia And speaks more concisely than Churchill or Hemmingway or Ghandi ever did. Don’t tell me how it feels. Don’t even try. Let that punching bag know. Because you know he’s listening. And he doesn’t have anything else more important to do.
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013 at 1:31 AM UTC
Fighting
A Tribute A king takes supper on a creaking deathbed. Featureless, winged creatures zoom by the dark condensed windows. Micro parasites build adobe headquarters in his soft tissue. Reaching for a plate, he groans the terabyting howl that’s prescribed with chemotherapy. Qwerty and light from the drugs, he stares at the apple on his tray. Lost in its curves, he finds himself trapped in a safari of memories. A dream devolves upon his downtrodden mind…. The canopy is populated with twittering, angry birds. Pools of social blood attract flies to the googolplex degree. He stumbles through the dell, suspicious forest while a tremulous, fiery fox stalks behind his echoing footfalls. Pixar apes swing from trees chased by grisly, disney men with guns and trucks. A large eye tunes the darkness and blinks red upon an aging mountain lion in shadow’s brush. The sony rays belight foliage in auspicious, plaid-orange hues. This amazon of experience plugs the wanderer into a hard drive of intelligence – a gateway to an encyclopedia of wikis and browsers, expanse enough for any backdrop rooftop audience to be faux-enthralled and eager. There are grumblings in the distance of another engine tromping the scope in search of something new and useless. A rumorous bat upsets the plagiarizing tide of the Atlantic Pea Sea. A snake slinks out of the blossoms clinging to the vines among a macintosh tree and bites the salty flier of the washboard night; cyber venom invades his veins. The average, homeless, bounding, warrior awakens to find a cold supper on his lap and another syringe in his arm. His remaining gums support his teeth as they bite into the apple. He swallows, sighs, and rests his balding, crescent, once-handsome head on the white pillow. The green fruit tumbles gently out of bed and mutely rolls to the floor. With that, Steve Jobs is dead.
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 12:03 AM UTC
A Tribute
A Tribute A king takes supper on a creaking deathbed. Featureless, winged creatures zoom by the dark condensed windows. Micro parasites build adobe headquarters in his soft tissue. Reaching for a plate, he groans the terabyting howl that’s prescribed with chemotherapy. Qwerty and light from the drugs, he stares at the apple on his tray. Lost in its curves, he finds himself trapped in a safari of memories. A dream devolves upon his downtrodden mind…. The canopy is populated with twittering, angry birds. Pools of social blood attract flies to the googolplex degree. He stumbles through the dell, suspicious forest while a tremulous, fiery fox stalks behind his echoing footfalls. Pixar apes swing from trees chased by grisly, disney men with guns and trucks. A large eye tunes the darkness and blinks red upon an aging mountain lion in shadow’s brush. The sony rays belight foliage in auspicious, plaid-orange hues. This amazon of experience plugs the wanderer into a hard drive of intelligence – a gateway to an encyclopedia of wikis and browsers, expanse enough for any backdrop rooftop audience to be faux-enthralled and eager. There are grumblings in the distance of another engine tromping the scope in search of something new and useless. A rumorous bat upsets the plagiarizing tide of the Atlantic Pea Sea. A snake slinks out of the blossoms clinging to the vines among a macintosh tree and bites the salty flier of the washboard night; cyber venom invades his veins. The average, homeless, bounding, warrior awakens to find a cold supper on his lap and another syringe in his arm. His remaining gums support his teeth as they bite into the apple. He swallows, sighs, and rests his balding, crescent, once-handsome head on the white pillow. The green fruit tumbles gently out of bed and mutely rolls to the floor. With that, Steve Jobs is dead.
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I'm seeking to amass a Collection of the World's spiritual, mythic and philosophical codices. I want to collect them out of veneration for those who came before who have tried to illuminate the Paths: The following is my library of such books of yet. Entries in bold are my recommendations; entries italicized are strongly recommended. -Old Works: **Egyptian Book of the Dead Tibetan Book of the Dead The Bhagavad Gita Euclid's Elements** Tao te Ching (I have 3 translations) I Ching (2 translations and a workbook) The Qur'an The Bible -Newer Works: Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar: Philosophy explained through Jokes *Quadrivium: Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology* The Pulse of Wisdom - College Eastern Philosophy Book *Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna* The Elements of Reason - College Logic Book 1001 Perls of Buddhist Wisdom *Net of Being by Alex Grey* *Art Psalms by Alex Grey* **The Portable Nietzsche *The Red Book of Jung The Portable Jung*** The Subtle Body - Encyclopedia of chakras, auras and other personal energy systems. Who are you? - 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself -- I seek to compile this Collection not to have a nice looking bookshelf; nor do I seek to find which one is right. I seek to learn from each of these the lessons that are intrinsic in our Lives; they're all matters of perspectives. I want to compile the aspects of each philosophy with which I resonate and integrate them into my own, forging a dynamic and holistic individual philosophy. All of these books are Mystical masterpieces. All of these books provide insights to the nature of our Holy Reality. All of these books ultimately attempt to express the same ineffability. All of these books are interpreted then translated and interpreted again. The way I see it, I may as well do it for myself; draw my own conclusions: Think for myself.
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Jul 5, 2013
Jul 5, 2013 at 4:13 AM UTC
Mythic, Philosophical Codices
I'm seeking to amass a Collection of the World's spiritual, mythic and philosophical codices. I want to collect them out of veneration for those who came before who have tried to illuminate the Paths: The following is my library of such books of yet. Entries in bold are my recommendations; entries italicized are strongly recommended. -Old Works: **Egyptian Book of the Dead Tibetan Book of the Dead The Bhagavad Gita Euclid's Elements** Tao te Ching (I have 3 translations) I Ching (2 translations and a workbook) The Qur'an The Bible -Newer Works: Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar: Philosophy explained through Jokes *Quadrivium: Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology* The Pulse of Wisdom - College Eastern Philosophy Book *Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna* The Elements of Reason - College Logic Book 1001 Perls of Buddhist Wisdom *Net of Being by Alex Grey* *Art Psalms by Alex Grey* **The Portable Nietzsche *The Red Book of Jung The Portable Jung*** The Subtle Body - Encyclopedia of chakras, auras and other personal energy systems. Who are you? - 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself -- I seek to compile this Collection not to have a nice looking bookshelf; nor do I seek to find which one is right. I seek to learn from each of these the lessons that are intrinsic in our Lives; they're all matters of perspectives. I want to compile the aspects of each philosophy with which I resonate and integrate them into my own, forging a dynamic and holistic individual philosophy. All of these books are Mystical masterpieces. All of these books provide insights to the nature of our Holy Reality. All of these books ultimately attempt to express the same ineffability. All of these books are interpreted then translated and interpreted again. The way I see it, I may as well do it for myself; draw my own conclusions: Think for myself.
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Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC
NUMINOSITY (OR HUMANISM OWES A DEBT TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT)
Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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All my poems are gone and my friends left, too-- maybe I'll **** myself because I'm feeling pretty blue. I know it shouldn't matter I know I shouldn't care; they're just words on a page and thoughts in the air. But maybe my life was saved inside each one, a catalog, an encyclopedia, I miss them a ton. But I sail away on my cheetah print sheets to a passed out land of marijuana dreams and inebriated streets.
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Aug 14, 2012
Aug 14, 2012 at 2:54 AM UTC
All my poems are gone
Lawrence Hall [email protected] https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/ poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Socrates on the Courthouse Lawn in Liberty, Texas “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” -attributed to Socrates, but no one knows Imagine if you will old Socrates On an old wooden bench on the courthouse lawn Playing checkers with all the other old men On an old picnic table throughout the day He lifts his old straw hat in the leafy shade With his old bandana he wipes his old bald head And sagely asks the old questions of us And through his dialectic dismantles old cant And that must be why, as the ages pass They’ve made for him a monument here in the grass (While passing through Liberty, Texas I saw on the courthouse lawn a marble slab engraved only with “Socrates”.) Liberty County Courthouse - TexasCourtHouses.com Liberty, Texas, Bed & Breakfast Hotels (usatoday.com) Socrates (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Mar 14, 2021
Mar 14, 2021 at 9:25 AM UTC
Socrates on the Courthouse Lawn in Liberty, Texas
There’s a line in a movie which goes something like “pain is good, it lets you know you are still alive”. The obvious question that I can hear you asking is “So when the pain goes away you know you’re dead?” This inevitably leads to a conversation about life after death. Now that topic can be dangerous if you don’t walk away from the conversation quickly enough, at one of “those” parties, you know the ones; the one you would not have gone to if you knew that the person who invited you believed in the power of healing crystals. So as the bottles of wine get emptier, the part time philosophers get louder and more opinionated about everything from the existence of an afterlife to what was the “real” message behind the final episode of M.A.S.H. And yes, I have been unfortunate enough to actually hear some overfilled part time philosopher postulate a well thought out, theory on the subject at an Italian restaurant in Brisbane and unfortunately was only up to desert so could not escape without missing out on coffee and Muscat and cigars. It was a tough call though. Ah smoking in a restaurant, those were the days, now where was I? So given the opportunity to choose an activity which you know involves pain, i.e.: Rugby League, running a Marathon, Childbirth or listening to drunk part time philosophers at parties, why would you knowingly throw yourself into any of these extreme sports? Well maybe because the rewards of the end result are worth the pain involved during the activity. So that cool night in that Italian restaurant I sat through Scott’s theory, not knowing at the time if the pain of the story was going to be offset by the quality of the temptations to follow desert. And so that leads me to the reason for writing this. A friend of mine recently wrote. “Apparently any given situation can look good if viewed from the right angle. Sometimes I get cramps!” Well my friend the Muscat was good that night, the coffee rich and earthy and the cigars cheap but free. Scotts actual theory is long gone from my head but the memory of that Muscat coffee and cigars lingers for twenty years. I am lead to believe that cramps may be a symptom or complication of pregnancy, kidney disease, thyroid disease, hypokalemia, hypomagnesaemia or hypocalcaemia (as conditions), restless-leg syndrome, varicose veins,[2] and multiple sclerosis.* So, given that if in fact it turned out that you had one of these afflictions and the cramps lead you to discovering this fact, I would say the cramps; like my terrible dinner experience, viewed from the right angle looks good! Now off to the doctor with you, I’m off to the bottleshop. *From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Feb 15, 2015
Feb 15, 2015 at 12:11 AM UTC
Cramps
There’s a line in a movie which goes something like “pain is good, it lets you know you are still alive”. The obvious question that I can hear you asking is “So when the pain goes away you know you’re dead?” This inevitably leads to a conversation about life after death. Now that topic can be dangerous if you don’t walk away from the conversation quickly enough, at one of “those” parties, you know the ones; the one you would not have gone to if you knew that the person who invited you believed in the power of healing crystals. So as the bottles of wine get emptier, the part time philosophers get louder and more opinionated about everything from the existence of an afterlife to what was the “real” message behind the final episode of M.A.S.H. And yes, I have been unfortunate enough to actually hear some overfilled part time philosopher postulate a well thought out, theory on the subject at an Italian restaurant in Brisbane and unfortunately was only up to desert so could not escape without missing out on coffee and Muscat and cigars. It was a tough call though. Ah smoking in a restaurant, those were the days, now where was I? So given the opportunity to choose an activity which you know involves pain, i.e.: Rugby League, running a Marathon, Childbirth or listening to drunk part time philosophers at parties, why would you knowingly throw yourself into any of these extreme sports? Well maybe because the rewards of the end result are worth the pain involved during the activity. So that cool night in that Italian restaurant I sat through Scott’s theory, not knowing at the time if the pain of the story was going to be offset by the quality of the temptations to follow desert. And so that leads me to the reason for writing this. A friend of mine recently wrote. “Apparently any given situation can look good if viewed from the right angle. Sometimes I get cramps!” Well my friend the Muscat was good that night, the coffee rich and earthy and the cigars cheap but free. Scotts actual theory is long gone from my head but the memory of that Muscat coffee and cigars lingers for twenty years. I am lead to believe that cramps may be a symptom or complication of pregnancy, kidney disease, thyroid disease, hypokalemia, hypomagnesaemia or hypocalcaemia (as conditions), restless-leg syndrome, varicose veins,[2] and multiple sclerosis.* So, given that if in fact it turned out that you had one of these afflictions and the cramps lead you to discovering this fact, I would say the cramps; like my terrible dinner experience, viewed from the right angle looks good! Now off to the doctor with you, I’m off to the bottleshop. *From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chance Operations are methods of generating poetry independent of the author’s will. A chance operation can be almost anything from throwing darts and rolling dice, to the ancient Chinese divination method, I-Ching, and even sophisticated computer programs. Most poems created by chance operations use some original text as their source, be it the newspaper, an encyclopedia, or a famous work of literature. The purpose of such a practice is to play against the poet’s intentions and ego, while creating unusual syntax and images. The resulting poems allow the reader to take part in producing meaning from the work. The roots of using chance operations to generate poetry are generally traced to the Dada movement in Western Europe in the early and mid-twentieth-century, involving writers such as André Breton, Louis Aragon, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, and Paul Éluard. The Dadaists were deeply interested in the subconscious, and they believed that the mind would create associations and meaning from any text, including those generated through random selections. In one section of Tzara’s “Dada Manifesto on Feeble & Bitter Love," he offers the following instructions to make a Dadaist poem, here translated from the original French by Barbara Wright: “Take a newspaper. Take some scissors. Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem. Cut out the article. Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag. Shake gently. Next take out each cutting one after the other. Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag. The poem will resemble you. And there you are--an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the ****** herd.” The use of chance operations in contemporary poetry has been used most famously by the international avant-garde group Fluxus, poet Jackson Mac Low, and the poet and composer John Cage. A good example of a poem that was written using chance operations is Jackson Mac Low’s “Stein 100: A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair," which also includes Mac Low’s explanation of the methods he used to compose the poem.
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Jul 9, 2014
Jul 9, 2014 at 10:02 AM UTC
Poetry Class 7-9-14: Poetic Technique: Chance Operations
Chance Operations are methods of generating poetry independent of the author’s will. A chance operation can be almost anything from throwing darts and rolling dice, to the ancient Chinese divination method, I-Ching, and even sophisticated computer programs. Most poems created by chance operations use some original text as their source, be it the newspaper, an encyclopedia, or a famous work of literature. The purpose of such a practice is to play against the poet’s intentions and ego, while creating unusual syntax and images. The resulting poems allow the reader to take part in producing meaning from the work. The roots of using chance operations to generate poetry are generally traced to the Dada movement in Western Europe in the early and mid-twentieth-century, involving writers such as André Breton, Louis Aragon, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, and Paul Éluard. The Dadaists were deeply interested in the subconscious, and they believed that the mind would create associations and meaning from any text, including those generated through random selections. In one section of Tzara’s “Dada Manifesto on Feeble & Bitter Love," he offers the following instructions to make a Dadaist poem, here translated from the original French by Barbara Wright: “Take a newspaper. Take some scissors. Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem. Cut out the article. Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag. Shake gently. Next take out each cutting one after the other. Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag. The poem will resemble you. And there you are--an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the ****** herd.” The use of chance operations in contemporary poetry has been used most famously by the international avant-garde group Fluxus, poet Jackson Mac Low, and the poet and composer John Cage. A good example of a poem that was written using chance operations is Jackson Mac Low’s “Stein 100: A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair," which also includes Mac Low’s explanation of the methods he used to compose the poem.
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She was an old Mid-western woman. She was a distinct type. A stock-staple character, Sort of half Beverly Hillbillies Granny, Throw in a skosh Betty White, Mixed in with a lot of that old lady In Driving Miss Daisy. Southern Indiana: The Confederacy’s best kept secret. But I digress. She was my neighbor in Buckeye, Arizona, A quaint agrarian township, way out At the west end of Maricopa County, which is An hour from the Phoenix airport, the so-called Sky Harbor International Airport, Which surely must be near the list’s top: All-time most pretentious, Hyperbolic Chamber of Commerce, Municipal Boosterisms. Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia Boosterism: the act of "boosting" (or promoting) a town, city, or organization, with the goal of improving public perception of it. Boosting can be as simple as "talking up" the entity at a party or as elaborate as establishing a visitors' bureau. It has been somewhat associated with American small towns. Boosting is also done in political settings, especially in regard to disputed policies or controversial events. So, without thinking, Walking down the driveway To pick up the morning paper, I let it slip: “How are you?” She’s leaning over the hedge, As I bend down, Picking up the local Pravda. 35 minutes later she sums up: “I had to go to the doctor last night. Gave me some cream for my pud.” A twinkle in her eye— She, my lascivious, Old lady neighbor In Buckeye, Arizona. She had that sweet Mid-western thing Working for her, her regional mojo. And I’m right there on her wavelength: The apple not falling far from my tree, Or something like that . . . I am losing my train of thought, here. Last poem of the day, I guess.
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May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 at 8:50 PM UTC
“Last Poem of the Day”
She was an old Mid-western woman. She was a distinct type. A stock-staple character, Sort of half Beverly Hillbillies Granny, Throw in a skosh Betty White, Mixed in with a lot of that old lady In Driving Miss Daisy. Southern Indiana: The Confederacy’s best kept secret. But I digress. She was my neighbor in Buckeye, Arizona, A quaint agrarian township, way out At the west end of Maricopa County, which is An hour from the Phoenix airport, the so-called Sky Harbor International Airport, Which surely must be near the list’s top: All-time most pretentious, Hyperbolic Chamber of Commerce, Municipal Boosterisms. Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia Boosterism: the act of "boosting" (or promoting) a town, city, or organization, with the goal of improving public perception of it. Boosting can be as simple as "talking up" the entity at a party or as elaborate as establishing a visitors' bureau. It has been somewhat associated with American small towns. Boosting is also done in political settings, especially in regard to disputed policies or controversial events. So, without thinking, Walking down the driveway To pick up the morning paper, I let it slip: “How are you?” She’s leaning over the hedge, As I bend down, Picking up the local Pravda. 35 minutes later she sums up: “I had to go to the doctor last night. Gave me some cream for my pud.” A twinkle in her eye— She, my lascivious, Old lady neighbor In Buckeye, Arizona. She had that sweet Mid-western thing Working for her, her regional mojo. And I’m right there on her wavelength: The apple not falling far from my tree, Or something like that . . . I am losing my train of thought, here. Last poem of the day, I guess.
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He beams as he enters my bedroom Holding a glass bottle Bout a liter with a light label Ether? (i was already down a hot dessert road with a pint of it in the back on the way to Las Vegas in a red sportscar) No my son Embalming fluid Quickly we scrounge for money And with almost zero effort We had an eighth of some funk We feel rich as we walk And the rain falls A good omen As we smoke a cigarette near the retention pond A falcon picked up a black snake and carried it over the trees Marijuana soaked in embalming fluid The bodies are emptied and filled to help slow down decomposition He reads from Encyclopedia Britannica about embalming I imagine ancient  humans sitting around a fire in the center of the dessert They are throwing  massive amounts of marijuana on the fire Inventing gods and dancing They were each dipped and allowed to fully dry We talk about all the **** our egos have snagged lately As he packs The hit Like plastic to the tongue My lungs become black in an instant Filled with an acrid white smoke Exhale the soul **** that was fast* Stillness in everything The building vibration at the base of my skull Reverberating through me each word         Spirals off into thousands Of volumes of information The processing power Of the machine Capable of this existence the psychotic episode of existence It tries to talk Surely it thinks it is something How fine it is to know that it will all one day end In an instant neither dark nor light I will die And I have no fear of this An instant of life Boiling over to its brim in thoughts To feel one moment of true ignorant blissful love of another soul Love just another reaction to instinct That we love to label with Big long pages of words And inventions to make Them faster until everyone knows what life should be like
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Jan 31, 2013
Jan 31, 2013 at 1:07 AM UTC
Ha Ha Wet
He beams as he enters my bedroom Holding a glass bottle Bout a liter with a light label Ether? (i was already down a hot dessert road with a pint of it in the back on the way to Las Vegas in a red sportscar) No my son Embalming fluid Quickly we scrounge for money And with almost zero effort We had an eighth of some funk We feel rich as we walk And the rain falls A good omen As we smoke a cigarette near the retention pond A falcon picked up a black snake and carried it over the trees Marijuana soaked in embalming fluid The bodies are emptied and filled to help slow down decomposition He reads from Encyclopedia Britannica about embalming I imagine ancient  humans sitting around a fire in the center of the dessert They are throwing  massive amounts of marijuana on the fire Inventing gods and dancing They were each dipped and allowed to fully dry We talk about all the **** our egos have snagged lately As he packs The hit Like plastic to the tongue My lungs become black in an instant Filled with an acrid white smoke Exhale the soul **** that was fast* Stillness in everything The building vibration at the base of my skull Reverberating through me each word         Spirals off into thousands Of volumes of information The processing power Of the machine Capable of this existence the psychotic episode of existence It tries to talk Surely it thinks it is something How fine it is to know that it will all one day end In an instant neither dark nor light I will die And I have no fear of this An instant of life Boiling over to its brim in thoughts To feel one moment of true ignorant blissful love of another soul Love just another reaction to instinct That we love to label with Big long pages of words And inventions to make Them faster until everyone knows what life should be like
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5:30, 4:30 - Up ever earlier. 40, 50, 60 Pages of the encyclopedia open. All with tabs, Of the many windows, pages, & folders. Through the looking glass, Roaming far & near as an extraterrestrial.
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Nov 18, 2024
Nov 18, 2024 at 7:36 AM UTC
An Alien To Culture
My name is Chris I avoid obvious rhymes and give you just the rancid; 'We feel you have not been communicating effectively as an employee' poet. So to you I said 'I'm ill' 'Care to spill?' she hisses. 'Yes' I said My names the one burning brightly up there in the corner of the room, 'Prince and King Godber' bearing wooden sign carved by the passion of a Norse god, a bearded dwarf on a throne. She responds; simple, ****** surreal metaphors notwithstanding I ain't slept... Small **** Na **** but let's not go into it tonight, naked. In her dreams he's laid with a woman, wept weeping eyes, distant stare, destroyer of hope, Eastern European,a broken painter cheating, but he didn't know till it was too late. The Sun became black The full moon became blood the great mountain ran with fire Pain. Passion, Nighttime. 'Do what thou Wilt' says the bald man and shrugs, setting a bomb off in the 20th century. I did, I do, I do - boom boom. no one laughs. She shouts angrily Fool, Coward, Prince Why don't you just come dance outside stroke away those cobwebs in your hair so I did, ripped the cobwebs out screamed outside, bashed my head on concrete, tried to **** myself once, maybe twice, contemplated more. Like Virginia my hidden idol. My sister in censured pain. Knees bashed, half-cut in dead of night screaming **** this provincial slaughterhouse, this cherryhouse of the half dead / half ****** merry go round and round, like Kereouc, but twice as merry, and that's saying something. Come and bathe yourself in my immortal **** she bleats 'look it up in your encyclopedia of shames' you'll just find a picture of a woman. It's intoned meaning It's poems, lips tell tales, tell them then. I dare yer to tell em. Scream them from rooftops. screaming eyes aglow, burning Blake fire poet looks down with lizard eyes you remind me of me Mum naked. Puke. Puke, ***** on the doormat. Violence in words, this language is obscene and that is why he said she said is gonna **** us. Already has. **** it, fancy overdosing yourself on abilify tonight poet? Not a plan. Not a plan. Don't go out drowning yourself in alcohol or life, not tonight, not tonight. Just never.
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Mar 7, 2016
Mar 7, 2016 at 4:18 PM UTC
He Said, She Said
My name is Chris I avoid obvious rhymes and give you just the rancid; 'We feel you have not been communicating effectively as an employee' poet. So to you I said 'I'm ill' 'Care to spill?' she hisses. 'Yes' I said My names the one burning brightly up there in the corner of the room, 'Prince and King Godber' bearing wooden sign carved by the passion of a Norse god, a bearded dwarf on a throne. She responds; simple, ****** surreal metaphors notwithstanding I ain't slept... Small **** Na **** but let's not go into it tonight, naked. In her dreams he's laid with a woman, wept weeping eyes, distant stare, destroyer of hope, Eastern European,a broken painter cheating, but he didn't know till it was too late. The Sun became black The full moon became blood the great mountain ran with fire Pain. Passion, Nighttime. 'Do what thou Wilt' says the bald man and shrugs, setting a bomb off in the 20th century. I did, I do, I do - boom boom. no one laughs. She shouts angrily Fool, Coward, Prince Why don't you just come dance outside stroke away those cobwebs in your hair so I did, ripped the cobwebs out screamed outside, bashed my head on concrete, tried to **** myself once, maybe twice, contemplated more. Like Virginia my hidden idol. My sister in censured pain. Knees bashed, half-cut in dead of night screaming **** this provincial slaughterhouse, this cherryhouse of the half dead / half ****** merry go round and round, like Kereouc, but twice as merry, and that's saying something. Come and bathe yourself in my immortal **** she bleats 'look it up in your encyclopedia of shames' you'll just find a picture of a woman. It's intoned meaning It's poems, lips tell tales, tell them then. I dare yer to tell em. Scream them from rooftops. screaming eyes aglow, burning Blake fire poet looks down with lizard eyes you remind me of me Mum naked. Puke. Puke, ***** on the doormat. Violence in words, this language is obscene and that is why he said she said is gonna **** us. Already has. **** it, fancy overdosing yourself on abilify tonight poet? Not a plan. Not a plan. Don't go out drowning yourself in alcohol or life, not tonight, not tonight. Just never.
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Anti me Anti you Anti everything We’ve ever been known for This is a relapse Brought on by our late nights And early mourning We grieve to say we feel As much as we felt When we felt the way you feel This is a relapse Of my suicide attempts The key to my self-hatred Stares at me from the mirror Let the leeches nourish on my flesh And let my scars bleed for you Forever eternally yours Forever eternally yours I bought a book the other day With one hundred and twenty ways To conclude it all painfully Tortured under self loathing I’m checking out
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Sep 25, 2011
Sep 25, 2011 at 10:10 AM UTC
Encyclopedia Self Destructica
A garden trowel in a patch of irradiated weeds An odometer in an endless maze of MickeyD's An encyclopedia in a pawn shop full of tweakers A love song on a boombox with broken speakers May I present several examples of useless things with nothing to do Now if you think those're bad, you should see what I'm like... *
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Apr 9, 2021
Apr 9, 2021 at 10:10 PM UTC
...Without You
Never Forget Your Pills Pretending to be normal, its so hard when you're immortal. In bed I'm called a god, stand up for me and applaud. Me more happy than a clam, I'm more American than Uncle Sam. I make your dreams come true, I'm more famous than Playboys Hugh. I love to flirt, I love to tease, my goal is to always please. I love being in the **** I'm just that kind of dude. A few times I've almost died, I get emotional and have cried. Some say that I'm delusional, I find that to be kind of disputable. You try being so **** perfect, coming from me, what do you expect. Not my fault, I'm the best, I live by the power of suggest. I open so many closed minds, if somethings lost, I give it a finds. I make magic with my pen, I'm smarter than the three wise men. I have no more competition, everyone failed the last audition. Everywhere I go, I get praised, happening so long, I don't get phased. Some say i suffer from schizophrenia, all I read is the newest encyclopedia. Can't help having god like features, back in school, I taught the teachers. Today I forgot to take my medicine, everything just written was irrelevant.
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Sep 27, 2013
Sep 27, 2013 at 2:14 PM UTC
Never Forget Your Pills
I CALCULATIONS A bird from the window Pecked at my papers Lined with my scores. Now trees are dead, And papers are gone. This is the computer age. I will break it down for you. I even made a list, Would you like to count? II THE LIST 1.This is the computer age                   Of digitized proofs        And 2.Authority attested identies,      With participants' certificates. 3.Our own words have lost meaning 4.We are now vessels                      With our definition stapled on screens       And 5.Meagre salaries         Tagged on our foreheads. 6.We are our grades. 7.The given guidelines,       Projects we finished overnight.          We are the cheated test scores, 8.The printed marksheets        From the renowned buildings. 9.We are a bunch of degrees.        10.We are a box of experience      With a reciept of coffees we bought,          We are a cv of what we did. 11.We are the said lies         And 12.The stress calmed by mummbled slurs. 13.We are the second employee         Shouted at.           And 14.We are the hundredth consumer        With company approved needs. 15.We are the salesperson with quotas to meet. 16.We are the owners        Of a dying business,          A pending debt. 17.We are the numerous people         Of covered faces on the streets 18.And exposed bodies in the world wide web. 19.We are the constructed          Digital photographs             With deconstructed heads.          20.We are a bunch of numbers 21.We are a bunch of numbers 22.We are a bunch of numbers, 23.When did we become        24. A 0 or a 1? People shouldn't even fit in a whole encyclopedia And yet here, Are you looking for a number 25? III RESULT Well I gave the papers to the bird, She put it in her nest And made it warmer. You call me crazy But I will always Call myself a free bird.
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Jun 4, 2017
Jun 4, 2017 at 9:54 AM UTC
Numbers
I CALCULATIONS A bird from the window Pecked at my papers Lined with my scores. Now trees are dead, And papers are gone. This is the computer age. I will break it down for you. I even made a list, Would you like to count? II THE LIST 1.This is the computer age                   Of digitized proofs        And 2.Authority attested identies,      With participants' certificates. 3.Our own words have lost meaning 4.We are now vessels                      With our definition stapled on screens       And 5.Meagre salaries         Tagged on our foreheads. 6.We are our grades. 7.The given guidelines,       Projects we finished overnight.          We are the cheated test scores, 8.The printed marksheets        From the renowned buildings. 9.We are a bunch of degrees.        10.We are a box of experience      With a reciept of coffees we bought,          We are a cv of what we did. 11.We are the said lies         And 12.The stress calmed by mummbled slurs. 13.We are the second employee         Shouted at.           And 14.We are the hundredth consumer        With company approved needs. 15.We are the salesperson with quotas to meet. 16.We are the owners        Of a dying business,          A pending debt. 17.We are the numerous people         Of covered faces on the streets 18.And exposed bodies in the world wide web. 19.We are the constructed          Digital photographs             With deconstructed heads.          20.We are a bunch of numbers 21.We are a bunch of numbers 22.We are a bunch of numbers, 23.When did we become        24. A 0 or a 1? People shouldn't even fit in a whole encyclopedia And yet here, Are you looking for a number 25? III RESULT Well I gave the papers to the bird, She put it in her nest And made it warmer. You call me crazy But I will always Call myself a free bird.
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